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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE: ON SWALLOWING THE CHILDREN
ii. The Noble Ideal of State-Controlled Education
Please Do Not Adjust Your Child
Individualism vs. Individuality
i. Standards vs. Standardization
ii. From Spiritual Development to Social Utility
iii. Soft Despotism from A to D
PART TWO: FROM FREE WILL TO FREE LOVE
Meet the Real Father of Modern Education
iii. Epilogue: Sleepwalking Through Fichte’s Dream
The Rise and Fall of the Didaskalocracy
ii. The Will to Power vs. The Will to Truth
i. Stalin’s Propagandist, The World’s Teacher
iii. Pragmatic Totalitarianism
PART THREE: ENDING THE REIGN OF CRONUS
Swallow Your Pride, Save Your Child